Have you seen some machines that eat used plastic bottles and give some coins to the users(用户) ?

     Recently, such machines have appeared at universities in Chongqing. They can turn rubbish into treasure and encourage the public to recycle rubbish. The machine is as large as a fridge. Users put an empty bottle in the machine, It is identified(识别) by a  small camera. Then it is put into a built-in bin. The users can get some coins. They can also give away the money.

     When the machine is filled with bottles. it will tell the company's(公司) head office. Nearby stations will send workers to have bottles collected . packed and send to the company.

     The bottle recycling machines could greatly encourage the public to recycle rubbish and save natural resources(资源) . Now the machine only eats plastic bottles. At sometimes in the future it will also cover others, such as glass bottles, to turn more rubbish into treasure and make full use of the natural resources.

     People can also see similar machines in Shanghai. In the future, more such machines will appear at some large stations. Bus stops, neighborhoods and schools.

      A seabird named Lydia recently made a 26-day nonstop(不间断的)journey of about 2,500 mi­les, just to search for food for her baby. She is fitted with a satellite tracking device (卫星跟踪仪). Her trip started on Oct. 18 from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The trip is known as the lon­gest nonstop journey by one of these endangered seabirds.

      Before that, this kind of birds was known only to fly a few hundred miles from where they live, staying away for just a few days at a time. They usually fly over the sea.

      The scientists feel it strange that Lydia made such a long, nonstop journey and flew overland. So the above facts raise some serious questions about efforts to stop the decline(减少)of the birds. The number of the birds has fallen by 10 percent over the past 20 years.

Besides, the scientists are surprised that she was away from her baby for such a long time. They wonder why she needed to go that far. Maybe it shows that fish resources (资源)around Christmas Island are not large enough now. That might explain the slow decline of the bird 一 sea pollution(污染) is serious.

    If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometres．These great forests are the seas of trees．They are full of thousands and thousands of different kinds of plants and animals．However, the world's forests are getting smaller all the time．We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farmland as well．Some people say that there will not be any forests like these left in 20 to 30 years．What will happen if they disappear? If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world, in a lot of places the new farmland will soon look like the old deserts, for example, crops will not grow there．What's worse, it will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot．Perhaps the climate of the world will change, which will be dangerous for everyone in the world．That is why we must take care of our forests．

    "Mirror (镜子) mirror on the wall, what film is on in the cinema?"

Now with this kind of new mirror, you can brush your teeth and read news at the same time in your bathroom. Now not many people have this kind of mirror, but it will be popular very soon.

    The mirror works with new software(软件). You can use it to get news. You can also make your time table on it. It can also tell you what to wear because it knows the weather. The mirror is very clever. You can write notes on it for family members.

    There's another kind of new mirror, too. It can get much information from the user's clothes. It tells the users what clothes make him or her look good. Going shopping or eating out? Wait a minute! The mirror can give you some coupons(优惠券), too.

Reading books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons. 

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Next, you can read a book anywhere: in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed — even in the bath. All you need is a book! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is e{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to stop and then start again. 

Another good reason for reading books is that it is useful. If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This m{#blank#}3{#/blank#} that you will read faster and will become better at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much easier. Many school subjects depend on good reading and, as you read, you learn more and more. 

Some people say that reading is out of date(过时). This is not true. You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is n{#blank#}4{#/blank#} out of date!

Good readers are most likely to be good writers, too. They are usually good at spelling as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best. W{#blank#}5{#/blank#} other hobbies could be more useful, or more enjoyable？

Failure (失败) is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work and players may fail in competitions. Failure happens to everyone. Different people's attitudes (态度) towards failure are different.

Some people don't think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the same failure later. Some will fall in low spirits when they don't do well in the work. They usually lose heart and no longer (不再) work hard as before. Then they spend their time and energy on useless things. So they have nothing to do, but feel sad and empty all day and all night. In fact, they lose the chance of success.

But most people take an active attitude towards failure. They encourage themselves to be self-confident. They find out and analyze (分析) the reasons of failure so that they will no longer make similar mistakes. They take a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. They will be successful after hard work in the end. Even great men have failed many times before they succeed. So we should deal with our failure rightly.

Now for me, I always find better ways to improve myself after I fail. But in the past, I didn't pay much attention to failure. So I always did things poorly.